Chandigarh, May 4 -- Under the 'Yudh Nashian Virudh' campaign cabinet ministers today led awareness programmes at district and village levels, strengthening grassroots efforts through village defence committees.

Ministers highlighted that the Bhagwant Mann government has shattered the spirit of drug smugglers as well as their ill-gotten houses-a stark contrast, they said, to previous administrations, which had allowed drug smuggling to thrive.

In Patiala, finance minister Harpal Singh Cheema and health minister Dr Balbir Singh led the charge. Administrative reforms minister Aman Arora and agriculture minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal addressed gatherings in Bathinda, while information and public relations minister Harjot Singh Bains was i...